Generating Counter Narratives against Online Hate Speech: Data and Strategies

Serra Sinem Tekiroğlu, Yi-Ling Chung, Marco Guerini


Abstract
Recently research has started focusing on avoiding undesired effects that come with content moderation, such as censorship and overblocking, when dealing with hatred online. The core idea is to directly intervene in the discussion with textual responses that are meant to counter the hate content and prevent it from further spreading. Accordingly, automation strategies, such as natural language generation, are beginning to be investigated. Still, they suffer from the lack of sufficient amount of quality data and tend to produce generic/repetitive responses. Being aware of the aforementioned limitations, we present a study on how to collect responses to hate effectively, employing large scale unsupervised language models such as GPT-2 for the generation of silver data, and the best annotation strategies/neural architectures that can be used for data filtering before expert validation/post-editing.
Anthology ID:
2020.acl-main.110
Volume:
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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July
Year:
2020
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Online
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Dan Jurafsky, Joyce Chai, Natalie Schluter, Joel Tetreault
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1177–1190
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.110
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.110
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Serra Sinem Tekiroğlu, Yi-Ling Chung, and Marco Guerini. 2020. Generating Counter Narratives against Online Hate Speech: Data and Strategies. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 1177–1190, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Generating Counter Narratives against Online Hate Speech: Data and Strategies (Tekiroğlu et al., ACL 2020)
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Data
Hate Speech